Manuel de Quesada y Loynaz

Manuel de Quesada y Loynaz (29 March 1833-29 January 1884) was a Cuban general during the Ten Years' War.

Biography
Manuel de Quesada y Loynaz was born in Camaguey, Captaincy General of Cuba in 1833, and, after Joaquin de Aguero's proclamation of independence in 1851, Quesada fled to New Orleans in the United States. He met several Mexican exiles there, and he later headed to Mexico with them to fight off the French occupiers. In 1867, he left Mexico for Cuba, where he heard that a conspiracy against Spanish rule was developing. Quesada fought in the Ten Years' War, and, with Antonio Zambrana, he travelled across Latin America with the goal of rallying support for Cuban independence. He died in San Jose, Costa Rica in 1884.